<div class="doc-item" id="doc-695"><h2 class="doc-item-name">cond<span class="namespace">(clojure.core)</span></h2><p class="macro">Macro</p><ul class="var-arglists"><li>(<span class="var-name">cond</span> &amp; clauses)</li></ul><div class="var-docstring"><p>Takes a set of test/expr pairs. It evaluates each test one at a
  time.  If a test returns logical true, cond evaluates and returns
  the value of the corresponding expr and doesn't evaluate any of the
  other tests or exprs. (cond) returns nil.</p></div><div class="var-source"><pre>; clojure/core.clj:364
(defmacro cond
  [&amp; clauses]
    (when clauses
      (list 'if (first clauses)
            (if (next clauses)
                (second clauses)
                (throw (IllegalArgumentException.
                         &quot;cond requires an even number of forms&quot;)))
            (cons 'clojure.core/cond (next (next clauses))))))</pre></div><div class="license"><p>Copyright (c) Rich Hickey. All rights reserved.</p><p>The use and distribution terms for this software are covered by the <a href="http://opensource.org/licenses/eclipse-1.0.php">Eclipse Public License 1.0</a>, which can be found in the file
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